Can we just talk about how my newly formed and wholly consuming love for the chiropractic arts?
I’m one of those people—please tell me it’s not just me—who manage to hurt themselves in the most ridiculously mundane ways possible. Not the ones who contract rare subtropical diseases when stranded in remote areas after parachute malfunctions, or [...]
Just in time (barely) for Valentine’s, I thought I would pass along my Official Ballad Singalong Playlist. Okay, so technically, not a large percentage of them are actually ballads, but they are all ridiculously sentimental and great for singing.
“Always On My Mind”—Willie Nelson
“As Long As You Love Me”—Backstreet Boys
“Can’t Help Falling In Love”—Ingrid Michaelson
“(Everything I [...]
Because we’re the coolest and most romantic people around, we spent Valentine’s Day at Alton Towers, the 11th most-visited theme park in Europe.
Eleventh! In Europe!
It’s the largest theme park in the UK, but it’s built on the grounds of a former country estate that’s a bit off the beaten path, which may explain its popularity [...]
I read things. It’s just what I do. I will read anything (English, German for toddlers) you put in front of me: magazines, blogs, cereal boxes, prescription drug inserts. Even the occasional book.
When it comes to actual books, though, I tend to stick to non-fiction and the classics. I think this is because I don’t [...]
One of the dear little graffitists in our our village (presumably Andy P) likes to tag the bridges along the canal and the creek with “TAGGED.” I can’t decide if this is idiotic or brilliantly self-referential.
Among other things:
I knitted this thing! And it only took me a month! I’m especially proud of it because I only used a pattern to figure out how to do the knotted cables in the middle. The rest is all me. Stephan helped me decide what to do and I got the fancier-than-normal yarn 50% [...]
Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response [taken January 7, 2010]
New Year’s resolutions and I don’t really get on. The problem with resolving to do something every day, forever, is that a) it’s quite daunting, and b) as soon as you break the resolution, which, let’s face it, is going to happen sooner or later, you throw in the towel completely since the possibility of [...]
And now, really more than you ever wanted to know, 2009 Closeout Edition
Five excellent places I visited in the UK:
—Peak District
—Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
—Edinburgh Military Tattoo
—Summits of most of the Three Peaks [Snowdon (highest point in Wales) and Scafell Pike (highest point in England)]
—Natural History Museum, London
Five excellent words and phrases brought to me by England:
—give [...]
Of course this is what Thanksgiving looks like!
This just in: England doesn’t actually celebrate Thanksgiving. A tragic oversight that only serves to introduce all sorts of problems, such as Christmas decorations appearing in stores in early October and people having their trees up already (the horror!). To help our British friends understand it all, I [...]
